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The research findings challenge the belief that conspiracy theories are the ‘hook’ for the Far Right, or ‘the way they radicalise people’, ‘the way they attempt to normalise extremist narratives’ and ‘a clear tactic of extremist groups’, as stated by
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Kathrin grew up “pretty brainwashed” in East Germany during the Cold War. Once a communist girl scout, she remembers the steady drum beat of state propaganda in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). To stop an exodus to the West, the
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A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, she’s having to reassure parents that their children will not be forcibly taken away and isolated in a secret location if
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A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, she’s having to reassure parents that their children will not be forcibly taken away and isolated in a secret location if
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No, there is no link between the coronavirus and 5G – nor is there any truth in the claim that Bill Gates is involved in a devilish plot to put a chip in everyone. A tidal wave of conspiracy theories
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It was Dec. 4, 2016, near the nation’s capital, and Edgar Welch was about to do something heroic. It was all over the internet that Comet Ping Pong pizzeria housed secret tunnels in which Hillary Clinton and others kept children
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The Annenberg Public Policy Center found that belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is partly correlated with the refusal to wear a mask. Credit: Kylie Cooper New research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center reveals that belief in
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In the final weeks before the 2020 election, the outsize role of conspiracy theories in American politics has become unmistakable. For some Trump supporters in particular, campaign-season news is filtered through the powerful idea that hidden forces are at work,
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This just in: There’s no wizard behind the curtain, and nobody’s actually in charge. There’s no shadowy cabal of billionaires scheming to bring about one-world government. To begin with, nobody clever enough to accumulate that much money believes that such
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The logo of video-sharing website YouTube is displayed on a smartphone on November 19, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images YouTube will start showing users in the U.K. and Germany fact-checking panels on some video
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